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The Year of Perfect Happiness : Volume 13
Overview
Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2014.
The sharp-witted stories in Becky Adnot-Haynes's debut collection explore the secret lives of people--how they deal with the parts of themselves that they choose not to share with their closest confidants--and with the world. A pole-vaulter practices his sport only before dawn. A recently divorced woman signs up for a hallucinogenic drug excursion in the Arizona desert. An uncertain girlfriend goes out into the world wearing a false pregnancy belly. In The Year of Perfect Happiness, the universe is recognizable but slightly askew, a world whose corners can be peeled back to reveal the strange and often comic outcomes of acting out your most self-destructive desires.Customers Also Bought
Details
- ISBN-13: 9781574415650
- ISBN-10: 1574415654
- Publisher: University of North Texas Press
- Publish Date: October 2014
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.5 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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